The rise of public cloud services has enabled businesses to innovate faster, scale effortlessly, and adopt more advanced technologies easier than ever before. However, there’s a dark side to using public cloud services: complexity and cost. Public cloud services can scale to handle almost any workload, but in doing so, they can quickly generate unpredictable costs for your business.

This blog series is focused on observability into Kafka based applications. In the previous blogs, we discussed the key performance metrics to monitor different Kafka components in "Monitoring Kafka Performance with Splunk" and how to collect performance metrics using OpenTelemetry in "Collecting Kafka Performance Metrics with OpenTelemetry." In this blog, we'll cover how to enable distributed tracing for Kafka clients with OpenTelemetry and Splunk APM.

Discipline is the key to success for all companies doing well in their field or reaching a trillion-dollar valuation. They manage the software and update it very frequently when it comes to providing services. So how are they able to manage it and keep their software updated every moment? The answer is ALM—Application Lifecycle Management. ALM includes the people, the software, the tools, and the processes included in software development, from planning to deploying it for end customers.

As you stroll through history, what changes do you notice in the culture of the medieval period, early modern period, and today, as in the modern-day? That's a simple question to answer. Their clothing, eating habits, modes of communication, and vehicles have all evolved and continue to evolve in the current era. So, what benefits may a company's cultural shift bring? You guessed it correctly!!! New DevOps tools and technology have a significant impact on cultural change.

When Covid-19 hit Romania, it was difficult for ordinary citizens to get good information about the pandemic and its escalating impact on the country. The government, presiding over one of the least developed healthcare infrastructures in the European Union, was releasing bulletins via PDF and text that were neither timely nor all that accurate. Into the breach stepped a team of six volunteers—five economists and a data scientist—operating out of Babes-Bolyai University.

Setting up Cloud Monitoring dashboards for your team can be time consuming because every team's needs are different. Picking the right metrics, using the right visualizations to represent these metrics, deciding what metrics can go on the same chart, and determining the right pre-processing steps for metrics requires background and experience that may not yet exist among your development and operations teams.